Kitchen Backsplash Finally Finished!

Sorry for being MIA over the past few weeks. I’ve been severely under the weather and had no motivation to wrap up all my outstanding projects. Yesterday I finally felt well enough to put the finishing touches on the kitchen backsplash that we started a couple of months ago. All the tile had been up for several weeks, I just needed to caulk some seams and reinstall the outlet faceplates.

I’m delighted with how it turned out:

I have to say that in the end this tile takes almost as much work to install as regular tile. It’s difficult to cut because the tiles are adhered to a plastic backing that the wet saw absolutely hated. If you are tiling an area that doesn’t require many cuts, this is a super quick option. However, I think that going forward (now that we’ve mastered the wet saw) we will probably stick with regular tile!

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Diane, it’s certainly sticky enough to adhere but the edges might look strange because it won’t meet flush with the wall if there’s tile behind it. I wouldn’t recommend it. You can however buy an epoxy kit to paint over old tile if you need a cheap update. I hope that helps!

Hi Samuel – we didn’t. Each outlet ended up being different depending on how the previous piece of tile finished. The outlets were honestly the worst part but looked fine in the end. Basically we cut the tile at straight edges…on the left, for the the top and for the bottom – so 3 separate pieces. It was too difficult to try make the “cut out” that we originally wanted.

My husband just did this backsplash for our kitchen. It’s been over over a week but he is still working on it because the outlets were the trickiest part. He resolved to reposition the outlet to sit on top of the tile for a cleaner look, but he will have to fill in the space around the outlet since the tiles are different heights.The 3D effect makes this backsplash beautiful.

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